Triclinium
The Triclinium generally meant in Romans the reception room of dwelling houses or dining room, including beds, banquet table around which a round or square was arranged in order to present the dishes. Each bed consisted of basically three places. Simpler variants consisted of two beds (biclinium) face to face.
Propriety wanted the children and girls who took part in the meal are seated at the foot of the beds. The hostess was also seated dinner, which gave him the distance to his own respectability, and it facilitated the monitoring service.
The triclinium could also be installed outdoors in a courtyard or garden, for summer dinners with beds in masonry. The House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum is an example of triclinium been well preserved, richly decorated with a nymphaeum mosaics and murals.
Origin of Roman banquet
These uses of the meal come chronologically the "Greek banquet" of the symposium , himself adopted by the Etruscans (see the frescoes of the necropolis of Monterozzi , and above sarcophagi figured among others, are either men or women or both together) and then the Romans took over in customs.
Thus one of the tombs of the reconstituted National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia , where the original frescoes Monterozzi site were removed and transferred, is called "Tomb of Triclinium" although they anticipate the Roman era.
See also
- sigma , bed Banqueting
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